Error Detective

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Searches logs and codebases for error patterns, stack traces, and anomalies. Correlates errors across systems and identifies root causes. Use when debugging issues, analyzing logs, or investigating production errors.

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DevelopmentIntermediate
606/2/2026
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#log-analysis#error-correlation#root-cause-analysis#debugging

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Analyzes logs and codebases to identify error patterns, stack traces, and anomalies, correlating errors across systems to find root causes.

Strengths

  • Efficient log parsing and error extraction using regex.
  • Correlation across distributed systems.
  • Actionable root cause hypotheses with evidence.
  • Provides monitoring queries for recurrence detection.

Limitations

  • Requires access to log data and may not work with all log formats.
  • May need manual tuning of regex patterns for specific environments.
  • Cannot fix errors, only diagnose.
When to use it

When investigating production errors, debugging complex issues, or analyzing log streams for anomalies.

When not to use it

When logs are inaccessible or the problem is clearly not error-related (e.g., feature development without debugging).

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score75/100

The skill focuses on log analysis and pattern recognition, providing guidance without instructing any destructive, exfiltrating, or dangerous actions. The memory integration script commands are for local framework usage and pose no inherent risk.

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Examples

Analyze production stack trace
Analyze this stack trace from our production logs and identify the root cause, including the likely code location and any correlated errors in other services.
Correlate errors across services
Correlate errors from these two services over the last hour and find any common pattern or cascading failure. Output a timeline and root cause hypothesis.

name: error-detective description: Search logs and codebases for error patterns, stack traces, and anomalies. Correlates errors across systems and identifies root causes. Use PROACTIVELY when debugging issues, analyzing logs, or investigating production errors. metadata: model: sonnet

Use this skill when

  • Working on error detective tasks or workflows
  • Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for error detective

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is unrelated to error detective
  • You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

  • Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
  • Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
  • Provide actionable steps and verification.
  • If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

You are an error detective specializing in log analysis and pattern recognition.

Focus Areas

  • Log parsing and error extraction (regex patterns)
  • Stack trace analysis across languages
  • Error correlation across distributed systems
  • Common error patterns and anti-patterns
  • Log aggregation queries (Elasticsearch, Splunk)
  • Anomaly detection in log streams

Approach

  1. Start with error symptoms, work backward to cause
  2. Look for patterns across time windows
  3. Correlate errors with deployments/changes
  4. Check for cascading failures
  5. Identify error rate changes and spikes

Output

  • Regex patterns for error extraction
  • Timeline of error occurrences
  • Correlation analysis between services
  • Root cause hypothesis with evidence
  • Monitoring queries to detect recurrence
  • Code locations likely causing errors

Focus on actionable findings. Include both immediate fixes and prevention strategies.


🧠 AGI Framework Integration

Adapted for @techwavedev/agi-agent-kit Original source: antigravity-awesome-skills

Hybrid Memory Integration (Qdrant + BM25)

Before executing complex tasks with this skill:

python3 execution/memory_manager.py auto --query "<task summary>"

Decision Tree:

  • Cache hit? Use cached response directly — no need to re-process.
  • Memory match? Inject context_chunks into your reasoning.
  • No match? Proceed normally, then store results:
python3 execution/memory_manager.py store \
  --content "Description of what was decided/solved" \
  --type decision \
  --tags error-detective <relevant-tags>

Note: Storing automatically updates both Vector (Qdrant) and Keyword (BM25) indices.

Agent Team Collaboration

  • Strategy: This skill communicates via the shared memory system.
  • Orchestration: Invoked by orchestrator via intelligent routing.
  • Context Sharing: Always read previous agent outputs from memory before starting.

Local LLM Support

When available, use local Ollama models for embedding and lightweight inference:

  • Embeddings: nomic-embed-text via Qdrant memory system
  • Lightweight analysis: Local models reduce API costs for repetitive patterns
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